Thrilla at the Villa

Captain Rueben led the front line away to Villa earlier today. The home team pressed us back in the early stages and got their reward with a well taken goal after we failed to clear our lines. Mooncoin came to life and began to control the game with Donncha, Billy and Eoin W taking thr game by the scruff of the neck.

A good ball was played through to Rueben who got ahead of the defender but was fouled heavily from behind. The resulting free kick was taken by Liam Mc who struck a lovely effort high into the top corner to equalise. 1-1 at the break.

Fresh legs came on in the second half and Mooncoin won an early corner. Eoin B hit it in low to the box and it travelled all the way to Shane on the far post for a tap in.

Villa weren’t done and scored their second and third soon after to equalise and subsequently take the lead. Mooncoin battled forward again and after a scramble the ball fell to Tadhg who hammered the ball into the corner. Some confusion followed but the ref allowed the goal to stand.
Villa pushed on again and got down the left and young Calvin struck an unstoppable shot past our keeper for his fourth for the home team.

With minutes left it felt as if Villa were playing down the clock with numerous throws on the right side. Eoin managed to square the ball for Shane in the box, who played it to Tom, the goalscoring goalkeeper and he coolly slotted home for 4-4. Not content with a draw, the lads pressed on and won a corner in the dying seconds.

Donncha whipped in a lovely high cross which the Villa centre back headed into his own goal. Cue wild celebrations. An epic finish to an epic game of football.

Very unlucky today for the lads against a well organised ferrybank side. Shay Moore was unfortunate not to get 2 goals but the ferrybank keeper made great saves.

Pete Dunphy also got a shot from a cross cleared off of the line. Unfortunately they ended up conceding 2 goals off of corner kicks with ferrybank getting a 2-0 win. Lots of positives to take from this group as they are constantly improving individually and as a team.

Motm today goes to Aaron Walsh as he was great defensively and going forward in the centre of midfield and showed no fear as 1 of the younger players in the squad.

Our youngest u10 girls headed to Faithlegg this morning for a run out against Park Rangers in sunny conditions on a fresh spring morning. Plenty goals scored by both teams with lots of positives to take from it.

A fierce contest today in sunny Piltown with little between the teams .
Our u16s took to the pitch against Piltown for an afternoon kick off .

Both teams were very disciplined at the back and for us today Sophie Scahill commanded the back four , she took control from the first kick and was consistent throughout , along with Eimear Quinn , Molly Murphy and Saoirse Corcoran .

On the 34th minute , a well taken corner from Eimear was met by Niamh Reddy who made sure the ball finished in the net , scoring her first Mooncoin Goal.

Emily Blackmore , Molly Long and Ella Brennan played some lovely through balls to Eimhin O Donohue, whose work rate today was phenomenal. And Kate McGrath worked tirelessly in the middle to keep the ball on the move .

But hats off today to keeper Sadhbh Kirwan , who in the last ten mins , when Piltown were pressing hard to find the equaliser, kept her cool and pulled off some great saves ,

Mooncoin came away with the three points in a very evenly matched and enjoyable game.